[RWP] Getting sounds from a midi synthesizer to play in Reaper?

[Scott Chesworth]

It does! Annoyingly it's a couple of inputs short of being perfect for
pre-production of my band. Don't suppose anyone knows of anything with
a similarly small form factor with a few more ins?

Scott

On 5/8/14, Chris Belle <cb1963 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> That motu seems like it'd be a nice little device.
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> On 5/7/2014 12:22 PM, Jes wrote:
>> Chris,
>> As far as my audio interfaces, right now, I have the Roland VS 20 sold by
>> cakewalk. I also have a Mackie pro FX 12 analog mixer, and a preSonus
>> monitor station.. Thanks so much for the reassurance about analog devices
>> being still used to make great professional recordings. That really put my
>> mind at ease. I still might invest in the motu audio express. Don't know
>> yet though.
>>
>> Jes
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
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>>> On May 7, 2014, at 10:14 AM, Chris Belle <cb1963 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> And in the big studio down town and in my own studio that's the way we
>>> did it for years before we had soft synths and such, recorded our tracks
>>> triggered by midi on to a real board to adats, or \
>>> what ever recording device.
>>>
>>> And these software companies are selling us channel strips to get back
>>> some of that analog sound, for these guys who don't have a board, not
>>> that you can compare a 1500 dollar mackie to a neeve or ssl that cost 4
>>> times what my house does,
>>> but you get the idea.
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 5/7/2014 4:50 AM, Jes wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Let me see if I can try and explain what I'm trying to do, as the
>>>> subject line might seem a bit misleading.
>>>> I have a Yamaha Motif XS8 connected via USB to Reaper so that I can use
>>>> it as a midi controler, and everything works fine. I can load kontakt
>>>> and sfz files into Reaper, play chords on the motif and the notes are
>>>> sent properly from the synth to the computer. However, the XS8 has some
>>>> incredible sounds that I want to access so that I can record them in my
>>>> projects, without needing to go from the line-out of the synth to the
>>>> line-in of a mixing board where there might be hiss, noise, static, etc.
>>>> Is there any way to send the sounds from the XS8 directly to the
>>>> computer itself using midi, instead of having to solely go the analog
>>>> route? The XS8 has spdif, but I have nothing else in my setup that
>>>> allows me to use spdif and I'm not too familiar with the complexity of
>>>> that format anyway. Any help would be appreciated.
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> Jes
>>>>
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